With authoritarian regimes on the rise around the world, the need to protect basic human rights is more urgent than ever. How can law schools, law students, and law faculties […]
Defending Human Rights
Democracies and International Law
From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the rising dominance of China as a superpower, a fresh examination of international law’s role in the global division between dictatorship and democracy […]
Digital Markets Act
The Digital Markets Act will regulate tech giants through a unique “gatekeeper” scheme. The Act imposes antitrust obligations only on the market’s largest actors – predominantly American companies. Is this […]
A Sense of Place: Talking with Dick Buxbaum
Dick Buxbaum’s life and work are legendary far beyond his home base at UC Berkeley Law School, where he’s been a member of the faculty, a brilliant scholar of comparative corporate law, and […]
Non-Binding Agreements
Thousands of non-binding agreements are shrouded in secrecy. A handful of publicly debated agreements – the Paris Climate Accords, the Iran Nuclear Deal or the Global Tax treaty – were […]
Subsidiaries and Supply Chains
How did Apple manage to pay an effective tax of 0% on its European profits? Will the new global minimum tax agreement change this? Duke Professor Rachel Brewster explains how […]
Sharing Responsibility for Refugees
The US welcomes refugees from Afghanistan but turns away Haitians. Why? Debating how best to share responsibilities for refugees, UCLA professor Tendayi Achiume argues that empires owe special duties to […]